SAN JOSE — Tomas Hertl knows someone’s missing when he looks over to his left inside the Sharks’ dressing room.
“It’s weird to see the stall without him,” Hertl said of former Sharks captain Joe Pavelski, who has started training camp with the Dallas Stars. “It for sure (stinks). He was a great friend to me over the last six years.”
A new era in San Jose officially began Friday as the Sharks — for the first time in well over a decade — began a training camp without Pavelski, who after 963 games and 761 points in teal, signed a three-year, $21 million contract with the Stars as an unrestricted free agent on July 1.